Mid Hudson Children's Museum Apartments For Rent

Posted by Justin Habersaat on February 18, 2009 10:55

For families living in an apartment, finding fun and exciting things for the kids to do is an almost daily task. Sure, some days you are content to let them jump around the living room with the Wii system (assuming they've finished their homework of course), but on those rainy Saturday afternoons sometimes you've just got to get them out of the apartment at the risk of losing your sanity.

For those days, the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum is a godsend for stressed out Poughkeepsie-area apartment-ite parents.

Part activity camp, part cultural experience, the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum takes great pains to make learning fun and engaging for youngsters primarily aged 5-13. Engaging a child's natural curiosity and yearning for play, the Museum offers such enjoyable activities as the Hudson River Tides Water Play Table (in which kids learn about tide formations while splashing around in the water) and the Dive Bell Center (where tykes enter a real submarine simulation to descend the depths of imagination).

The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum's recent teaming with Disney has yielded WKID, a mock radio station that puts your child in charge of not only the programming, but grants them the opportunity to man the airwaves of a shortwave. Biology education has never been more hands-on than with the new Heart Play exhibit, where children literally crawl through tubes made in a replica of the heart and lungs. Regardless of which activities you choose, the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum is welcome field trip for family apartment-ites tired of the usual weekend outing to the mall.